There’s a chatter in your mind and, I bet, nobody’s been able to find a cure for it. But don’t despair. It’s there in the minds of everyone else who has ever lived and, especially, rattles in the brains of your contemporaries.
Turning it off seems to have its advantages. That’s why so many techniques, strategies and gurus to implement them have appeared over the years. It’s not cheap to get your brain to shut up. People will spend fortunes following those who can promise them results.
But you can’t turn it off. The best you can do is replace it. That’s how meditation of any kind works. It functions by focusing on one thing, preferably, a sound. Once you’ve done it enough, it becomes a new standard for your mind and imagination. It’s easier said than done.
Czech electronic artist, De Moi, works with sounds that resemble thousands of meditation sessions blending seamlessly into one another. These serene sounds are no static. They’re nothing like watching a painting. They’re akin to watching a Sunset that appears slowly and then disappears in front of your eyes.
Vojtech Vesely, the artist behind the De Moi moniker, has had to tame technology itself to get to the sounds heard on “Drifting Intervals.” In essence, Vesely has created a self-playing orchestra with an endless amount of musical opportunities.
In purely technical terms, this is achieved by playing musical intervals through sophisticated tape delays and reverb pedals. The intervals can be heard shimmering out and blending with new notes, effectively, creating a boundless wash of musical color.
Fans of the ambient music pioneers like Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and, especially, William Basinsky will quickly find a connection with De Moi’s work. Both the sound and the daring technical exploration are worthy of praise.
But perhaps, “Drifting Intervals” speaks of something deeper about our connection with music. With thousands of songs released daily, and most of them fitted to a certain format, it’s quite easy to become cynical. If there’s something holy and eternally surprising about music, it should be easily found when you break it down into its smallest components. That’s just one of the things that De Moi gets right here.
